Four Ways to Calm Your Mind in Stressful Times
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Time away from Facebook has its ups and downs, research suggests—so Kira Newman gave it a shot.
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How compassionate are you?
How generous, grateful, or forgiving?
Find out!
Americans are increasingly divided along social and political lines. The evidence for this polarization can be found in our most intimate…
Read MoreCompassion literally means “to suffer together.” Among emotion researchers, it is defined as the feeling that arises when you are…
Read MoreRobert Emmons, perhaps the world’s leading scientific expert on gratitude, argues that gratitude has two key components, which he describes…
Read MoreMindfulness means maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and surrounding environment, through…
Read MoreFor the Greater Good Science Center, “diversity” refers to both an obvious fact of human life—namely, that there are many different…
Read MoreAwe is the feeling we get in the presence of something vast that challenges our understanding of the world, like looking up at millions of…
Read MoreWhen researchers refer to the concept of social connection, they mean the feeling that you belong to a group and generally feel close to…
Read MoreMost of us probably don’t believe we need a formal definition of happiness; we know it when we feel it, and we often use the term to…
Read MorePsychologists generally define forgiveness as a conscious, deliberate decision to release feelings of resentment or vengeance toward a person…
Read MoreThe term “empathy” is used to describe a wide range of experiences. Emotion researchers generally define empathy as the ability to sense…
Read MoreAltruism is when we act to promote someone else’s welfare, even at a risk or cost to ourselves. Though some believe that humans are…
Read MoreJon Kabat-Zinn discusses what mindfulness and meditation are really about: presence of heart.
Dacher Keltner gives an overview of the young science of awe, from how it's expressed to its benefits for health and well-being.
Want to teach kids a simple meditation? Here's how I do "loving kindness" meditation.
Barbara Fredrickson suggests that positive emotions make us more resilient to setbacks, improve our relationships, and may even change our…
Dr. Jeremy Hunter, founding director and associate professor of practice at the Executive Mind Leadership Institute, explains how to combat…
Gratitude may be good, Robert Emmons explains, but it isn't always easy. He considers some of the myths around gratitude and obstacles to…
In this presentation at the Greater Good Gratitude Summit, Chris Murchison describes his efforts to create an organizational culture at…
Wouldn't it be nice to just ask once?
Jack Kornfield shares extraordinary stories of forgiveness--and explains how the next story could be yours.
“The impulse towards kindness is a deeper, learned habit that comes from a lifetime of associating kind behaviors with beneficial outcomes.”― Do We Have an Instinctive Urge to Be Kind?, by Emiliana R. Simon-Thomas